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mircea_popescu: that they don't has everything to do with the fact that swift consts nothing (and provides nothing). bitcoin costs something, and it provides something for that cost. in spades.
mircea_popescu: there's only ~100 of them even needing it daily, and they could just do hourly settlements among each other and be fine.
mircea_popescu: if the banks had to make swift work with 500 txn/day, they would, and nobody would ever know.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, a small fraction of swift movements are ~actual~ settlement transactions.
mircea_popescu: nobody can take it seriously with derps a la gavin, luke, hearn & co involved.
mircea_popescu: biggest impediment to adoption, gavin, vessenes, "professional" derps and so on.
mircea_popescu: mike_c : Num Ratings, Average Rating, Average Rating (Magnitude) can get a tooltip definition/explanation ?
mircea_popescu: on an infinite timeline everything's equally likely, for one thing. so define your timeline. once you do that, how do you know + from - ?
mircea_popescu: but, very simply put : the hand of the market is the hand bitchslapping you. the market is not your mother.
mircea_popescu: silver being a fine example if one is superficial enough to only look at one example.
mircea_popescu: i believe the education adlai lacks is the failure of "cornering the X market" historically.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard only thing that'll accomplish will be exchanges with emplaced mortar batteries and landmine perimeters.
mircea_popescu: o yeah ? how many tank divisions does the city of new york have ?
mircea_popescu: stuff like "herp, polyanna boring printed herself a princess crown".
mircea_popescu: so wait, they seriously expect a claim in the trademarks of everyone selling through them ?!
mircea_popescu: then they get butthurt when people say they have nfi what they're doing.
mircea_popescu: but srsly : should prolly talk to the doctor. iirc this is an early sympthom.
mircea_popescu: it's made like a gauntlet for the reader, that's for sure.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski and i resent trackbacks ten minutes ago or os.
mircea_popescu: i'd be seriously insulted if i actually were to take the us seriously.
mircea_popescu: doesn't this disparity seem scandalous ? whence the gall to "punish" a cia boss.
mircea_popescu: well if they make it so it can also be accessed without a card, i'm probably getting an infinity of them.
mircea_popescu: but it only engages if someone clicks a header. so pretty safe.
mircea_popescu: mike_c from experience, even tables with > 10k entries are sortable. just takes a sec.
mircea_popescu: it's this entire "empowerment" idiocy going around the english space these decades.
mircea_popescu: the guy had issues. if you think you can swallow a tractor, then by the same head you will probably also think you can swallow it underwater.
mircea_popescu: " and in a memorable email exchange said it was investigating exchange MPEx owner Mircea Popescu over the sale of popular gambling site SatoshiDICE for over $11.5m in bitcoin."
mircea_popescu: "The issuers paid 11,450 LTC and 210 BTC in listing fees, respectively."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski also in the news, you didn't send a pingback.
mircea_popescu: "Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about HTML5 video."
mircea_popescu: besides, erryone gets to set their own priorities and so on.
mircea_popescu: speculating because well, never heard anything specific on the topic.
mircea_popescu: what i imagine is the case is - nano was planning to make an upgraded gribble for what, coupla years now. he's probably thinking to have it done in one piece.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne there was some discussion re making them communicate, but no concrete steps towards gribble becoming able to sign its stuff so far.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, prolly a lot more crucial here than in -otc, so some sort of decoupling was probably unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: wot is a crucial bit of infrastructure, and so it's watched and protected accordingly.
mircea_popescu: well at that time you couldn't tell what happened. for all you know, nano was usg-kidnapped.
mircea_popescu: turns out the guy was just traveling at the time (was right around the new year).
mircea_popescu: gribble went down at some point. this is rare, but whatever, happens. nanotube was also unresponsive. after a few days in this position assbot got enabled to wot
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